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Eagle...an action series...

Here is an eagle, who caught a small fish, transferring that poor little (snack-size) fish from his talons to his mouth, mid-air...

Still sorting thru all the eagle pics :) 
 
 
 

How 'bout some deer photos...

from Neil Smith NWR:

my 2nd fave animal to photograph :)

As you can see, the deer were pretty much only interested in eating...

AND, I have yet to photograph a deer with antlers!!!
 

Buffaloes in the Mist...

I'm working backwards from our weekend photos...hundreds and hundreds of eagle photos, but only about a 100 buffalo ones.

And deer.

Which will come tomorrow.

Hopefully.

It was a VERY foggy area around the Neal Smith NWR, which we drove thru on our way home from Miss. River. I did some post processing on these to try and make them clearer. NO CROPPING done.

This one is the favorite of my photos:

 

These 2 show one of the bigger groups (herds???) we saw:

Did I say no cropping??? This big guy was right next to our vehicle, maybe 5-6 feet away! I like to get close to my subjects, but I was just a teeny weeny bit nervous he might decide to find out what that clickety clickety noise was :)

Here's Todd's version of this big dude:

(before I do anything further with this photo, I'm gonna PS out that blade of stuff from his face)

So there you have our buffalo pics...

Next up, deer :)
 
 

 
 

 
 

EagleFest 2010...

at Le Claire, IA...L&D #14.

So thankful that Larry suggested chemical hand/feet warmers :)

So happy we bought cold weather gear this past fall, including carhart bib overalls :)

We stayed at the dam photographing eagles, seagulls, ducks for 8 hours Sunday...mid 20's with a slight breeze off of the river. VERY cold indeed.

I wouldn't do that for just any photoshoot.

But for eagles...

Here is just a sampling of what we watched:

This is NOT the best photo, I just grabbed the 1st one I saw...LOTS of photos to go thru, probably around 1600 between the 2 of us :)

Let me just say that even if you have seen eagles before, if you haven't seen them fish, you NEED to. Fascinating!
 

Yesterday...during the snowstorm....

I watched and took photos of all the birds in the neighbor's feeder. Also saw a hawk fly by a few times...never when I had my camera ready though...

but then I saw something rather big flying off in the distance, in a land far far away :)

thought it was the hawk

but it wasn't

now this photo is VERY HEAVILY cropped and during heavy snowfall, so basically it sucks as far as photos go, but just wanted to show that I did indeed see an eagle yesterday. from my back porch :)

Not seeing ANY birds today, I don't think they could fly in this wind...